I work for a large local hospital here in Cincinnati.  Our lease runs out pretty soon for our Datacenter space.  We're currently located at the old Bethesda hospital location on Reading Rd.

 

Any ideas where to look? I'm hoping to point management to a reasonable place in or around downtown... we're looking for about 10,000 sq ft minimum (all on one floor, squarish, high ceilings, etc).

www.loopnet.com is a great website to look up commercial real estate. I'm pretty sure it covers property for sale and lease. I don't know if that will help. Good luck.

Thanks David.

You work where I was born!  :-D

 

Another good place that I've found was this:

 

http://www.gototown.com/cgi-bin/availMap.cgi

 

 

You work where I was born!  :-D

 

Me too!

 

Anyway, why do you need high cielings? (Just wondering ;)

You work where I was born!  :-D

 

Me too!

 

Anyway, why do you need high cielings? (Just wondering ;)

 

I work where I was born :)

 

At a datacenter, you typically want a raised floor for wiring and so forth.  We're hoping to be able to have about 2 feet of clearance or so under the floor.  Couple that with the fact that there are equipment racks that need a certain clearance from the ceiling, and the need for cable trays, etc, hanging from the ceiling means you need some space. 

 

See example (this looks similar to what we have now):

 

 

One great way to get commercial space is to get a university (one that's stuggling or looking for growth  :wink:  ) to lease you the space and you of course agree to give a certain amount of internships a year to qualified students. It makes the school look better because they're providing job placement and gives you an extremely low cost of operation. A required 10k sq feet is a lot though especially for one floor, so that idea might not work but if it did you'd save your company a hell of a lot of money and they would worship you. Just throwing the idea out there. I've seen it done with a branch of a major university system.  It incentivized the biggest telecommunications company in Japan to move into North America  :wink: That region is going to see a huge technological boom in the near future.

The Vora Tech Park sounds perfect for you, but I guess you won't consider the drive :( .

 

www.voratechpark.com

Why does every "business park" always have a lake in the front with a water fountain? I would be out there fishing on my lunchbreak.

^LMAO!

 

What is even more comical is only a street divides that pond from the Great Miami!

 

 

 

 

^ That is one of the most sexiest things I have in my life.  You should see the cluster f*** that we have for a data center

Well, that's not our datacenter, though ours isn't that bad.  The only way to get something like they have is to outfit the whole thing with racks on the outset, and not build piecemeal like most folks.  That's usually not practical.  We find a rack we like better every couple of years :). 

 

Yea, Hamilton is pretty much out of the running, sorry :).  I know they are looking for a location inside the 275 loop.  My input is minimal, but I'm hoping to sway them to place it close, or in downtown for my own selfish reasons...

 

You should take a look at Mill Valley on Reading Rd. at Dorchester. This is a three building office development that has supported various hospital and university technical/office groups in the past.  There is a 14,000 square foot space that is presently available. All the infrastructure needed for a data center is available. Check out www.westshell.com, under Active Listings, under Office, Mill Valley.